Entry Word: chaste

Function: adjective

Meaning: free from any trace of the coarse or indecent <as one would expect, the ministerʼs small talk is always chaste, even though he likes a joke as much as the next person>

Synonyms clean, decent, immaculate, modest, pure

Related Words spotless, stainless, unblemished, undefiled, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished; decorous, proper, seemly; cultivated, refined, tasteful; harmless, innocent, innocuous, inoffensive

Near Antonyms blemished, defiled, soiled, spotted, stained, sullied, tainted, tarnished; improper, indecorous, ribald, unseemly; crude, tacky, tasteless, unrefined

Antonyms coarse, dirty, filthy, immodest, impure, indecent, obscene, smutty, unchaste, unclean, vulgar